Is this normal?

[sherpa]

Collecting my eggs this afternoon, this was in their nesting box.

2 of the ladies I have laying at the moment are a year and the other 2 a year and a half. My oldest hen who is about 6 or 7 is sitting on eggs, I have seen a few distorted eggs before she went broody and I thought it was her, as I have read old hens laying ditorted eggs, yet she isn't laying at the monet, so it is one of the young hens. Do I have a problem?

[Flummery]

Did you mean to post a picture?

[sherpa]

sorry, forgot photo!

[sheena]

Wow, that is a strange egg!

Never seen anything like that before

[MaureenHall]

That certainly is one for the record books

[Nicos]

No idea what's going on..but was that hard shelled????

If so- what was inside it??

Weird!!

[sherpa]

it was slightly softer than a normal egg and it just had the white of the egg and no yolk.

[kirsty b]

May be something I've been told is a 'wind egg' sometimes cause after a fright or stress of some kind

A couple of years ago, my sheds were torched and sfter I found an egg, perfectly formed, but tiny. It only had white in it and one of the 'old boys' on site called it that.
Do have funny shape ones occasionally after bad thunderstorms and the like.

[Flummery]

Also sometimes called 'fart eggs'. (Not by me, of course - I ain't common!)